Formed into, or printed from, stereotype plates.

One who stereotypes; one who makes stereotype plates, or works in a stereotype foundry.

The art, process, or employment of making stereotype plates.

Of or pertaining to stereotype, or stereotype plates.

A stereotyper.

A stereotype printer.

The act or art of printing from stereotype plates.

The art or process of making stereotype plates.

Pertaining to, or designating, a kind of hydraulic press; resembling such a press in action or principle.

Producing little or no crop; barren; unfruitful; unproductive; not fertile; as, sterile land; a sterile desert; a sterile year.

The quality or condition of being sterile.

The act or process of sterilizing, or rendering sterile; also, the state of being sterile.

To make sterile or unproductive; to impoverish, as land; to exhaust of fertility.

One that sterilizes anything; specif., an apparatus for sterilizing equipment or an organic fluid.

A small sturgeon (Acipenser ruthenus) found in the Caspian Sea and its rivers, and highly esteemed for its flavor. The finest caviar is made from its roe.

Belonging to, or relating to, the standard British money of account, or the British coinage; as, a pound sterling; a shilling sterling; a penny sterling; -- now chiefly applied to the lawful money of England; but sterling cost, sterling value, are used.

Being in the stern, or being astern; as, the stern davits.

Having a paddle wheel at the stern; as, a stern-wheel steamer.

A steamboat having a stern wheel instead of side wheels.

Stern.

Of or pertaining to the sternum; in the region of the sternum.

A sulphide of silver and iron, occurring in soft flexible laminae varying in color from brown to black.

One of the segments of the sternum.

Having a stern of a particular shape; -- used in composition; as, square-sterned.

A director.

With the stern, instead of the bow, in advance; hence, figuratively, in an awkward, blundering manner.

The sternum of an arthropod somite.

In a stern manner.

Farthest in the rear; farthest astern; as, the sternmost ship in a convoy.

The quality or state of being stern.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the coracoid.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the ribs; as, the sternocostal cartilages.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the hyoid bone or cartilage.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the mastoid process.

Of or pertaining to the sternum and the thyroid cartilage.

A straight piece of timber, or an iron bar or beam, erected on the extremity of the keel to support the rudder, and receive the ends of the planks or plates of the vessel.

A steersman.

The end of a ship's keelson, to which the sternpost is bolted; -- called also stern knee.

A plate of cartilage, or a series of bony or cartilaginous plates or segments, in the median line of the pectoral skeleton of most vertebrates above fishes; the breastbone.

The act of sneezing.

Having the quality of provoking to sneeze.

Sternutative. A sternutatory substance or medicine.

The movement of a ship backward, or with her stern foremost.

Pertaining to a dunghill; hence, mean; dirty; paltry.

A star.

The crab-eating seal (Lobodon carcinophaga) of the Antarctic Ocean.

Any alloy of copper, zinc, tin, and iron, of which cannon are sometimes made.

Started.

p. p. of Start.

Stertorous.

Characterized by a deep snoring, which accompanies inspiration in some diseases, especially apoplexy; hence, hoarsely breathing; snoring.

To die, or cause to die; to perish. See Starve.

To cause or direct to remain after having been marked for omission; to mark with the word stet, or with a series of dots below or beside the matter; as, the proof reader stetted a deled footnote.

One of the higher alcohols of the methane series, homologous with ethal, and found in small quantities as an ethereal salt of stearic acid in spermaceti.

See Pneumatograph.

An apparatus for measuring the external movements of a given point of the chest wall, during respiration; -- also called thoracometer.

To auscultate, or examine, with a stethoscope.

Of or pertaining to a stethoscope; obtained or made by means of a stethoscope.

One skilled in the use of the stethoscope.

The art or process of examination by the stethoscope.

One whose occupation is to load and unload vessels in port; one who stows a cargo in a hold.

Voice; speech; language.

A place of stewing or seething; a place where hot bathes are furnished; a hothouse.

To manage as a steward.

A female steward; specifically, a woman employed in passenger vessels to attend to the wants of female passengers.

In a manner, or with the care, of a steward.

The office of a steward.

An overseer or superintendent.

Suiting a stew, or brothel.

A pan used for stewing.

A pot used for stewing.

See Stee.

Strong; active; -- said especially of morbid states attended with excessive action of the heart and blood vessels, and characterized by strength and activity of the muscular and nervous system; as, a sthenic fever.

The lowest relief, -- often used in Italian sculpture of the 15th and 16th centuries.

A sty on the eye. See Styan.

Stubborn.

Like, or having the qualities of, antimony; antimonial.

Antimonial intoxication or poisoning.

Combined or impregnated with antimony (stibium).

Antimonic; -- used with reference to certain compounds of antimony.

A native oxide of antimony occurring in masses of a yellow color.

Antimony hydride, or hydrogen antimonide, a colorless gas produced by the action of nascent hydrogen on antimony. It has a characteristic odor and burns with a characteristic greenish flame. Formerly called also antimoniureted hydrogen.

Antimonious.

The technical name of antimony.

A mineral of a lead-gray color and brilliant metallic luster, occurring in prismatic crystals; sulphide of antimony; -- called also antimony glance, and gray antimony.

The hypothetical radical SbH4, analogous to ammonium; -- called also antimonium.

An instrument consisting of small bars of wood, flat at the bottom and rounded at the top, and resting on the edges of a kind of open box. They are unequal in size, gradually increasing from the smallest to the largest, and are tuned to the diatonic scale. The tones are produced by striking the pieces of wood with hard balls attached to flexible sticks.

A verse, of whatever measure or number of feet.

Of or pertaining to stichs, or lines; consisting of stichs, or lines.

A special podlike or fusiform branch containing tetraspores. It is found in certain red algae.

Divination by lines, or passages of books, taken at hazard.

Of or pertaining to stichometry; characterized by stichs, or lines.

Measurement of books by the number of lines which they contain.

A kind of chickweed (Stellaria Holostea).

To adhere; as, glue sticks to the fingers; paste sticks to the wall.

See the Note under Lac.

A plant (Echinospermum Lappula) of the Borage family, with small blue flowers and prickly nutlets.

any of several plants having seeds tipped with barbs that may cling to fur or clothing, especially those of the genus Bidens, also called bur marigold, beggar-ticks, and Beggar's ticks, which have prickly flattened achenes.

Stuck.

One who, or that which, sticks; as, a bill sticker.

As much set type as fills a composing stick.

The quality of being sticky; as, the stickiness of glue or paste.

a. n. from Stick, v.

Stuck; spoiled in making.

A shallow rapid in a river; also, the current below a waterfall.

Any one of numerous species of small fishes of the genus Gasterosteus and allied genera. The back is armed with two or more sharp spines. They inhabit both salt and brackish water, and construct curious nests. Called also sticklebag, sharpling, and prickleback.

One who stickles.

The ruddy duck.

Having the quality of sticking to a surface; adhesive; gluey; viscous; viscid; glutinous; tenacious.

An anvil; also, a smith shop. See Stithy.

Not easily bent; not flexible or pliant; not limber or flaccid; rigid; firm; as, stiff wood, paper, joints.

Obstinate.

Obstinate; stubborn; contumacious.

Stubborn; inflexibly obstinate; contumacious; as, stiff-necked pride; a stiff-necked people.

The quality or state of being stiff-necked; stubbornness.

Having the quill feathers of the tail somewhat rigid.

To become stiff or stiffer, in any sense of the adjective.

One who, or that which, stiffens anything, as a piece of stiff cloth in a cravat.

Act or process of making stiff.

Somewhat stiff.